Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gregory Kelly (Willie Baxter in Seventeen) does remarkable things with the love-sick lad. His halting, almost plaintive, delivery; his queru lous monotone; his unaffected charm make the part almost as much his as Mr. Tarkington...
...March 4, 1921, Woodrow Wilson rode to the Capitol to surrender the reins of office, a very sick man. Since then his life has been lived at Washington but out of the spotlight of publicity. Now and again he emerged from the twilight of his privacy in some public act, but in the main he has kept out of the public...
...tell their troubles. Perhaps because the author seems to them a sort of impersonal, veiled prophet, they pour out to him or her the most intimate sort of confessions. They don't get on with their spouses, their children go wrong, the roof leaks, they are in trouble, sick, despairing, what to do ? Rather pitifully, they assume that the author can help them, tell them why and how, set life on its feet again. Strange...
...hospitals: University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.; New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago; Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland; University Hospital, Iowa City, la.; Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; Physiatric Institute, Morristown, N. J.; Touro Infirmary, New Orleans; Presbyterian Hospital, New York; Barnes Hospital, St. Louis; Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto General Hospital, Banting-Best Fund, University of Toronto, Toronto...
...William Van der Wall, Dutch musician and sociologist, and at the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital, under Dr. Harold C. Cox, give promise of excellent effects on patients through " musical therapy." Phonographs, vocal and instrumental music improved the morale and the physical condition of mothers and sick children, calmed the violently insane, and stimulated melancholic cases. Music is becoming recognized as a definite adjunct of psychiatry...